[bigbob]

Pot, meet kettle.

Let's start by firing their worthless mayor, and the state's incompetent governor.

[msnimje]

I think the biggest breakdown in America is in the educational system. How is it so many people are so utterly IGNORANT of the way the Government works?

[BIRDS]

Proof that the Times/Picayune has no contact with the civilized world.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Original piece:

An Angry 'Times-Picayune' Calls for Firing of FEMA Chief and Others in Open Letter to President On Sunday

[Travis McGee]

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.

[Enchante]

To the Times-Picayune:

Let's start by dumping every 'Rat politician and journalist in LA, then we can talk. YOU have had DECADES to prepare for this past week, and the problems reflect most upon local leadership. YOU're the ones choosing to live below sea level in one of the most vulnerable places in the world, at least you ought to have the decency to adequately prepare for the well-known forms of adversity. What happened to personal responsibility and preparedness. Oh, I forgot, you're corrupt and decadent 'Rats, you don't have to try to live by rational policies....

[BurbankKarl]

That paper is irrelevent now

[Jewels1091]

FEMA may have had their problems but the biggest share goes straight to the local and state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LdSentinal]

For getting supplies to 90,000 square miles of devastation within two days, FEMA officials should get John Kerry's medals.

[KingNo155]

Great Idea fire them so they can't clean up the mess that Nagin and Blanco created. The Times-Picayune must have endorsed them both.

[Ichneumon]

Paper: Fire every FEMA official!

I'd love to see President Bush actually follow their advice... "Okay, I've fierd all the FEMA officials [show FEMA grinding to a complete halt and devolving into useless chaos] -- *now* what do you suggest?"

[Lancey Howard]

One thing is for sure - - I am not donating a penny to anything that benefits New Orleans.
Donations that I make will strictly benefit Mississippi, where the people are picking themselves up and doing what they need to do rather than holding out their hands and whining that "the government" isn't doing enough.

[Peach]

Maybe if they fire their Mayor and Governor, we'll consider it then. Until then, residents should try to buy a clue.

[TheLion]

Leave it to the RATS to try and make political hay out of something that is their sole responsibility and problem.

New Orleans is primarily an example of the failure of Liberalism and Socialism....anything else,is just an excuse to cover it up.

[Black Tooth]

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[TASMANIANRED]

Failure of leadership at the local level.

[Spunky]

"New Orleans' local newspaper, the Times-Picayune, is blasting President Bush..

But! But! But! I thought New Orleans was under water and most of the living have been evacuated.

Are they going to load these newspapers in boats and deliver them to the dead so in the after life they will know IT IS BUSH'S FAULT. < /sarcasm off >

[JerseyHighlander]

The Times-Picayune as a company, as an editorial board, has made it's bed long ago, that even in this time of great tragedy they aren't willing to be forthright with the truth, and break their implicit agreements with NO and LA's political establishment, speaks volumes for the levels of depravity of which this organization is willing to bear, to maintain it's prominent place within the city's power structure as the sanctioned lapdog town criers.

I'm tired and that's a horrible run on sentence, but that's what is plainly apparent from anyone looking upon this from a distance.

[Rome2000]

Time for the loser left to give up the ghost.

Hearings are in fact coming, and in the words of that smarter than Nagin chimp Dr. Zaius, "You may not like what you find."

[roses of sharon]

Gee, I wonder why this rag did not encourage their mayor to go get those buses, or I wonder if the "reporters" flew down to their thirsty citizens to bring some water.

If not, then they hate blacks, that's what I heard on TV.